>>>>Why IS it ok for men to tell women to 'Smile' all the time, yet rarely tell other men that? Is every man out there somehow the arbiter of women's attitudes?
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>>>FWIW, we also need to stop telling our sons that "big boys don't cry." Same problem, actually.
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>>>>Why IS it ok to tell girls that like playing with 'boys' toys that they're wrong wrong WRONG and should be in the 'pink' aisle? Why are toys 'gendered' anyway? Geebus Crispy! I grew up on Legos and Lincoln Logs and making models.
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>>>I was stunned when I went to buy a kid some Legos a few years back and found that, except for Duplos (the toddler kind), all the kits are gendered now. The ones aimed at boys are dark, dark, dark. What happened to airplanes and boats and generic stuff?
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>>>Tamar
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>>Dunno, It's still there. You have to look a bit closer.
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>>http://www.lego.com/en-us/city?icmp=COUSFRCity
>>http://www.lego.com/en-us/technic?icmp=COUSFRTechnic
>>http://www.lego.com/en-us/creator?icmp=COUSFRCreator
>>http://architecture.lego.com/en-us?icmp=COUSFRArchitecture
>>is not much gendered.
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>>http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/?domainredir=mindstorms.lego.com is girls number one wish.
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>>It's more a problem that the retailers only sell the merchandised / gendered stuff.
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>Glad to see this stuff. I was in a Lego store and couldn't find anything appropriate for the kid in question.
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>Tamar

Yepp, it's a pain.

Even the lego site is a problem. Try to find additional parts to the mindstorm system.

If the kid is old enough (and you have some spare time) there is FLL. :)

Lutz